Get the Fucking Money

Get the money. Get the money, and then let’s get around a table, and let’s create new rules. Literally that simple: get the fucking money. I’m serious.

It is going to be made, it is going to be allocated, and you have a moral imperative to make sure that if you have a point of view that matters, and you want to reflect it, you get it.

It will be about a competition of views. Money drives the world, for better or for worse. Economic incentives drive entire swaths of populations to behave in very, very, predictable — and then when you take it away, unpredictable — ways.

If you control the capital, and you have a point of view, don’t be a sellout.

Spend time to think about what your worldview is, so that when you control some of these purse-strings, you push that view into the world. I will never judge you, and you should not judge me, for what the worldview is. But the point is, the more diversity of those views, the more rational actors we have, and the more of a balanced, fair system. That’s what diversity means to me.

There are people that have probably dealt with the same kind of life I’ve dealt with. You have a very unique worldview that matters. In the absence of capital, you’re irrelevant. With capital, you’re powerful.